{"id":619080,"date":"2021-08-07T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=619080"},"modified":"2021-08-07T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T16:06:07","slug":"peter-beinart-called-for-the-elimination-of-the-jewish-state-ben-and-jerrys-tapped-him-to-defend-israel-boycott-to-franchisees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-beinart-called-for-the-elimination-of-the-jewish-state-ben-and-jerrys-tapped-him-to-defend-israel-boycott-to-franchisees\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Beinart Called for the Elimination of the Jewish State. Ben And Jerry\u2019s Tapped Him to Defend Israel Boycott to Franchisees."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeter-beinart-called-for-the-elimination-of-the-jewish-state-ben-and-jerrys-tapped-him-to-defend-israel-boycott-to-franchisees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=619080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.226890756303\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Beinart told Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s franchisees that Israel is illegally occupying territory that it seized from Jordan in 1967<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Peter_Beinart_06_cropped-736x519-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Peter Beinart\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Peter_Beinart_06_cropped-e1602693870799.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Peter_Beinart_06_cropped-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Peter_Beinart_06_cropped-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Peter_Beinart_06_cropped-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Peter_Beinart_06_cropped-697x491.jpg 697w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPeter Beinart \/ Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 7, 2021 12:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"103.18217562254\">\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s brought in vocal Israel critic and anti-Zionist author Peter Beinart to talk to its store owners about Israel\u2019s &#8220;illegal occupation&#8221; earlier this week, after franchisees raised concerns about the company\u2019s boycott of the Jewish state, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>On the conference call with Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s franchisees and store managers, Beinart argued that Israel is illegally occupying territory that it seized from Jordan in an offensive war in 1967 and claimed that the Jewish state sends soldiers into Palestinian villages to abduct minors, according to a source familiar with the content of the call.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s decision to invite Beinart\u2014an advocate for the Israel boycott movement who has called for the abolition of the Jewish state\u2014to address insider objections indicates that it is doubling down on its criticism of Israel in the face of internal and external fallout. Thirty Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s franchise store owners recently sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/ben-jerrys-franchisees-letter-west-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to the company, which is owned by Unilever, asking it to &#8220;re-examine and withdraw&#8221; its boycott decision. Unilever has responded with reassurances that the company remains committed to doing business in the Jewish state even as its subsidiary continues its boycott.<\/p>\n<p>Beinart told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that he was not compensated by Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s or Unilever and has no financial arrangement with either company. He said he was invited to speak on the call because he has publicly promoted boycotts of contested areas of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wrote a NYT op-ed calling for settlement boycott in 2012. I\u2019ve espoused this view for a long time,&#8221; said Beinart.<\/p>\n<p>Beinart said he could not recall if the descriptions of his comments during the call were &#8220;entirely accurate,&#8221; and said it was &#8220;very unlikely I said \u2018offensive war&#8217; given how I generally speak about 1967.&#8221; He declined to provide additional details about his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The ice cream company sent a memo to franchisees inviting them to &#8220;join us for a learning opportunity and respectful discussion with author and Middle East expert, Peter Beinart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beinart recently disclosed in his newsletter that he has &#8220;spoken privately to [Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s] executives and encouraged their efforts&#8221; on the boycott campaign, adding that &#8220;no one has produced any independent evidence that the company is hostile to Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beinart was one of the most prominent supporters of the Bush administration&#8217;s decision to invade Iraq while serving as the editor of an unapologetically Zionist <em>New Republic <\/em>in the early 2000s. In the years since, he has offered countless apologies and repositioned himself as a leading critic of Israel and Zionism, landing a <em>New York Times<\/em> column in the process. Beinart now calls Israel an apartheid state and says that the pro-Israel community silences and intimidates critics.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, Beinart took his criticism of Israel to new heights when he penned an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/08\/opinion\/israel-annexation-two-state-solution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial<\/a> stating, &#8220;I no longer believe in a Jewish state&#8221;\u2014a position that is shared by those who want to see Israel destroyed, including Palestinian terror groups.<\/p>\n<p>Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s did not respond to a request for comment. Unilever, the parent company of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned franchisees of the ice cream company recently sent a letter to Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s leadership asking them to reconsider the decision to halt product sales in the West Bank, arguing that it &#8220;not only distorts the situation on the ground\u2014it has imposed, and will to continue to impose, substantial financial costs on all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company has also faced backlash from state and local governments over its decision. Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/Blogs\/archives\/2021\/08\/03\/florida-puts-ben-and-jerrys-parent-company-on-scrutinized-list-over-boycott-of-israels-occupied-territories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">placed<\/a> Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s on a list of &#8220;scrutinized&#8221; companies earlier this month, and Maryland is <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/maryland\/2021\/08\/md-to-review-state-contracts-with-ben-jerrys-over-israeli-boycott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviewing<\/a> its state contracts with the ice cream maker.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture Beinart told Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s franchisees that Israel is illegally occupying territory that it seized from Jordan in 1967  Peter Beinart \/ Wikimedia Commons &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}